* - I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

* - I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.- Galileo Galilei

* - The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

* - The covers of this book are too far apart.- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

* - The cynics are right nine times out of ten.- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

* - The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.- Tom Clancy

* - The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.- unknown

* - The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.- Gloria Leonard

* - The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

* - The gods too are fond of a joke.- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

* - The graveyards are full of indispensable men.- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

* - The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

* - The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

* - The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

* - The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

* - The mistakes are all waiting to be made.- chess master Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

* - The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

* - The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.- Lucille S. Harper

* - The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.- General George Patton (1885-1945)

* - The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

* - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

* - The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

* - The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

* - The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.- James Branch Cabell

* - The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

* - The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

* - The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

* - The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

* - The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

* - The truth is more important than the facts.- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

* - There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

* - There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

* - There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

* - There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

* - There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.- C. A. R. Hoare

* - There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.- Sigfried Hulzer

* - There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.- Frank Zappa

* - There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

* - There is no sincerer love than the love of food.- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

* - There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.- Bill Wulf

* - There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

* - This book fills a much-needed gap.- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

* - This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper

* - Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

* - To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

* - To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.- Charles William Stubbs

* - Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

* - Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.- Mel Brooks

* - University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

* - When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.- Mae West (1892-1980)

* - When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

* - When ideas fail, words come in very handy.- Goethe (1749-1832)

* - When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

* - When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

* - When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

* - Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

* - Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?- Bumper Sticker

* - Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.- Henry Ford (1863-1947)